New in our shop ; STAX

Ask any seasoned audiophile about high-end headphones and it won't be long before the name Stax is mentioned. The company launched the world's first electrostatic headphones in 1960 and laid the foundation for a well-deserved and brilliant reputation that continues to this day. For those who are not yet familiar with it, the big difference with dynamic headphones is the working principle. In dynamic headphones, the cone is attached to a coil that is in a strong magnetic field. The music signal is connected to this coil, whereby the alternating magnetic field thus generated drives the cone. With electrostatic headphones, the air is set in motion by attracting and repelling an electrostatically charged membrane. The membrane of a Stax Earspeaker is a conductive, extremely thin (1-2 micron) polymer foil, which is hung taut between two metal grids. A (direct) voltage of approximately 580 volts is connected to the membrane. The membrane is electrostatically charged but stays neatly in place because the voltage on the left and right grid is the same. Due to the much lower mass, a Stax Earspeaker sounds faster with more details, spaciousness and naturalness.